On Sunday 3 December, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on X (formerlyTwitter) that the European Commission’s proposal for Ukraine to join the EU was “unfounded and poorly prepared” and that there was “no place for it on the agenda of the December European Council meeting”.
According to Mr Orbán, Ukraine’s accession “does not coincide with the interests of many Member States”. “No matter how much pressure is put on us, this issue should not be put on the...